Therapy and the Attention of Emotions

Art – in words, colours, sounds or shapes – helps and communicates emotions.  Devotion and fear, triumph and defeat, enthusiasm and courage, lulling and belief, are but a few. Scrambling to one’s feet, hands tossed about in confusion and hands reaching out, consolation and looking for God in a place where there is nothing – which of these could we afford to be secretly deficient? If the emotion-storehouses of art are locked up by the emotionally deficient, and the key is thrown into a well, where is the locksmith who would help the children stuck outside to enter?

Music leads to true emotions. True emotions are not born out of sentimental vibratos and sweet lyrics, but are real values born out of the strength of inspiration when the reception is complete.

Music deriving from inspiration, whether folk music, formally composed, or an improvisation, reaches the most delicate layers of the personality in the soul’s most profound depth. The ability of music to gain attention is similar to silence. Thus, it has a curing effect. It may help open up, and recognize darkly veiled troubles and abiding fears. I look at it, scrutinize it, and perhaps show it to friends who understand. Without words, under the spell of music, in a cathartic experience, I am capable of such things. The friends become able to concentrate with empathy, too either because they recognize themselves in the pain flowing from me, or because they have become better under the influence of selfless love received as messages from the music.